Comments on: Will $100 Computer Revolutionize Education? http://pjnet.org/post/1552/ Public Journalism Network Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:53:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Leonard Witt http://pjnet.org/post/1552/#comment-632 Leonard Witt Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:47:03 +0000 http://pjnet.org/post/1552/#comment-632 Hi Wayan: I just checked out your site. It's helpful. I want laptops in the hands of kids everywhere. So using your figures, someone with a modest two worker income, like mine, could for $3,000 provide a classroom of 20 hardy take-home computers for every kid in the class. Sounds great. However, what <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/education/04laptop.html?ex=1335931200en=75dac8d7966c6d80ei=5090partner=rssuserlandemc=rss" rel="nofollow">about the articles</a> saying schools with laptops have found little improvement in learning, and the schools spend all their time trying to fix the computers? I know these 100 laptops are built to last, but what maintenance issues? Hi Wayan:

I just checked out your site. It’s helpful.

I want laptops in the hands of kids everywhere. So using your figures, someone with a modest two worker income, like mine, could for $3,000 provide a classroom of 20 hardy take-home computers for every kid in the class. Sounds great.

However, what about the articles saying schools with laptops have found little improvement in learning, and the schools spend all their time trying to fix the computers? I know these 100 laptops are built to last, but what maintenance issues?

]]> By: Wayan http://pjnet.org/post/1552/#comment-625 Wayan Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:43:03 +0000 http://pjnet.org/post/1552/#comment-625 The XO computer would be a boon to American schools, but there is resistance at OLPC to follow that path. Nicholas Negroponte is focusing on the developing world and government sales - not individual sales that would be the most logical in the USA. We've explored a OLPC USA option extensively on OLPC News: http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/usa/ The XO computer would be a boon to American schools, but there is resistance at OLPC to follow that path. Nicholas Negroponte is focusing on the developing world and government sales - not individual sales that would be the most logical in the USA.

We’ve explored a OLPC USA option extensively on OLPC News: http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/usa/

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